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sfpegasus
Jun 08, 2016Tutor
Format NTFS External USB Errors on Win10 machine
I use an external USB drive to backup my ReadyNas daily. It's formated NTFS (by the ReadyNas). Every now and then I need a file from the drive and I take the external drive and plug it into a Win10 ...
StephenB
Jun 09, 2016Guru - Experienced User
Are you dismounting the drive on the readynas before you remove it?
sfpegasus
Jun 09, 2016Tutor
It dismounts automatically after the backup, and remounts properly as long as it doesn't get mounted on a Windows machine first.
I rotate two identical drives daily over and over without incidents. Only on the rare occasion where I mount the drive on a Windows machine do the problems start. It doesn't matter which physical drive.
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